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" Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. "

Julian Fellowes

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" I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed. "

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" I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does. "

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" My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible. "

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" When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material. "

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" Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration. "

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